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Otter.ai is a Mountain View, Calif.-based tech company that uses artificial intelligence to generate speech-to-text transcriptions. It has become a popular tool for transcribing virtual office meetings.

A federal lawsuit seeking class-action status accuses Otter.ai of "deceptively and surreptitiously" recording private conversations that the tech company uses to train its popular transcription service without permission from the people using it.

The company's AI-powered transcription service called Otter Notebook, which can do real-time transcriptions of Zoom, Google Meet and Microsoft Teams

A new lawsuit filed in Illinois federal court is shining a spotlight on the legal risks tied to AI-powered meeting assistants that offer transcription and speaker identification services on platforms like Zoom and Microsoft Teams. The complaint, brought by Illinois resident Katelin Cruz, alleges that California-based tech company Fireflies.AI Corp. is illegally harvesting and storing individuals' biometric voice data without their knowledge or consent.

According to Cruz's complaint, Fireflies.AI's meeting assistant allegedly records, analyzes, transcribes, and stores the unique vocal characte

A proposed class action filed July 30, 2026, in the US District Court for the Northern District of California accuses Granola, the venture-backed AI meeting notetaker, of intercepting and recording virtual conversations without the knowledge of most participants, then feeding those recordings into its own AI model training by default.

The complaint, Chamberlain v. Granola, Inc. and Granola Labs Ltd., was brought by Tarra Chamberlain, a Florida resident, on behalf of a proposed nationwide class and a California subclass. It names two corporate defendants: G

A schoolgirl found dead at her home weeks after her 13th birthday had been fed a stream of "disturbing" social media videos that normalised suicide, her family say.

Blake Gallier, from Northfleet, Kent, had not appeared to have problems with mental health when she died on October 30 last year, according to her mother, Gemma Best.

"Blake was really happy," Best, 47, said. "She was an extrovert, she was funny, she was hilarious, she was the life and soul of the party. Blake was a confident, happy extrovert who was just phenomenal."

It was only after examining Blake's phone that relatives disc

A 67-year-old farmer in Chuzhou, China, lost his entire sesame crop after following weed and pest-control advice generated by an AI app. According to Taiwanese outfit CTWANT, the farmer, Wu, had been using the technology for about a year and had grown confident in its suggestions. But one recommendation proved costly, killing sesame seedlings across 150 mu, or about 24.7 acres, of farmland.

Wu had initially been doubtful about relying on AI for farming decisions. Over time, however, he found its responses useful and began trusting the advice it provided. That confidence led him to act on its